A Case to Answer on" high crimes and misdemeanors"

LONDON, March 17 (Xinhuanet)


-- A British lawmaker was on Thursday ordered to leave the House of Commons after refusing to withdraw comments that Prime Minister Tony Blair misled the lower house of parliament over the war on Iraq two years ago.

MP Adam Price said that Friday will be the second anniversary of the vote on going to war with Iraq and the "motion of impeachment (of Blair) is before us."

"There is compelling evidence that the prime minister misled this house in taking us to war," he said, "Isn't it high time we held him to account?"

Commons Speaker Michael Martin asked Price twice to "withdraw that remark" but Price said he was unwilling to do so, according to a Sky News report.

Then Martin said: "I ask you to withdraw from the chamber. Leave the chamber."

Price, who has commissioned a report called A Case to Answer on" high crimes and misdemeanors" in relation to Iraq, then left the House of Commons.

The last lawmaker to be thrown out was the Scottish National Party's Annabelle Ewing, who left after branding Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon a "backstabbing coward."

Under Commons Standing Order 43, the Commons Speaker is authorized to remove for the day anyone guilty of "grossly disorderly" conduct. Enditem

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